10-letter words containing o, k, d
- choke-hold — a restraining hold in which one person encircles the neck of another in a viselike grip with the arm, usually approaching from behind: The suspect was put in a chokehold and was gasping for breath.
- chokeholds — Plural form of chokehold.
- chowkidars — Plural form of chowkidar.
- clock card — a card used by employees to register their time of arrival at, and time of departure from, their workplace
- cloud peak — a mountain in N central Wyoming: highest peak in the Bighorn Mountains. 13,175 feet (4018 meters).
- cloud rack — a group of moving clouds
- cocked hat — A cocked hat is a hat with three corners that used to be worn with some uniforms.
- cockeyedly — in a cockeyed manner
- cockneydom — cockneys considered together as a group
- codetalker — A military communications specialist using codes based on an obscure language.
- codewalker — (programming, tool) A program component that analyses other programs. Compilers have codewalkers in their front ends; so do cross-reference generators and some database front ends. Other utility programs that try to do too much with source code may turn into codewalkers. As in "This new 'vgrind' feature would require a codewalker to implement."
- cold drink — a beverage that is chilled.
- coldcocked — to knock (someone) unconscious, as with the fist.
- cool drink — any soft drink
- corkboards — Plural form of corkboard.
- crack down — If people in authority crack down on a group of people, they become stricter in making the group obey rules or laws.
- crackdowns — Plural form of crackdown.
- crooked on — hostile or averse to
- crookedest — Superlative form of crooked.
- cuckolding — Present participle of cuckold.
- cuckoldize — to make (a married man) into a cuckold
- dark cloud — grey clouds threatening rain
- dark horse — If you describe someone as a dark horse, you mean that people know very little about them, although they may have recently had success or may be about to have success.
- dark money — money donated to politically active nonprofit organizations or anonymous corporate entities, which spend this money to influence political campaigns or other special interests but are not required to reveal their donors.
- de kooning — Willem (ˈwɪləm). 1904–97, US abstract expressionist painter, born in Holland
- dead stock — farm equipment
- deadlocked — If a dispute or series of negotiations is deadlocked, no agreement can be reached because neither side will give in at all. You can also say that the people involved are deadlocked.
- deblocking — Present participle of deblock.
- deck cargo — cargo that is carried on the deck of a ship
- deckhouses — Plural form of deckhouse.
- decoy duck — a duck, or an image of one, used to lure other ducks into a trap or within shooting range
- defrocking — Present participle of defrock.
- desert oak — a tree, Casuarina decaisneana, of Central and NW Australia, the timber of which is resistant to termite attack
- desk-bound — engaged in or involving sedentary work, as at an office desk
- deskperson — Journalism. a member of a newspaper staff who processes news and prepares copy, usually from information telephoned in by reporters.
- destocking — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- devil book — (publication) "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD Unix Operating System", by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. Karels, and John S. Quarterman (Addison-Wesley Publishers, 1989, ISBN 0-201-06196-1). The standard reference book on the internals of BSD Unix. So called because the cover has a picture depicting a little devil (a visual play on daemon) in sneakers, holding a pitchfork (referring to one of the characteristic features of Unix, the "fork(2)" system call).
- dinkum oil — the truth
- diplospeak — the polite and placatory language usually associated with diplomats
- dirty joke — vulgar piece of humour
- dirty look — face: resentful expression
- dirty work — disagreeable, often tedious tasks.
- disfrocked — Simple past tense and past participle of disfrock.
- ditto mark — Often, ditto marks. two small marks (″) indicating the repetition of something, usually placed beneath the thing repeated.
- do a skase — to skip the country while owing a large amount of money
- dobzhansky — Theodosius (Grigorievich) [gri-gawr-ee-uh-vich,, -gohr-] /grɪˈgɔr i ə vɪtʃ,, -ˈgoʊr-/ (Show IPA), 1900–75, U.S. geneticist, born in Russia.
- dock house — traditionally a building situated at the dock where a harbourmaster works and resides
- dockmackie — a North American shrub, Viburnum acerifolium, of the honeysuckle family, having long stemmed clusters of white flowers and ovoid, almost black berries.
- dockmaster — a person who supervises the dry-docking of ships.
- dockworker — a person employed on the docks of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.